Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
9
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
217
Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
9
The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
6
Flies are deaf.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
12
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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